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Dhaka - Eleven-month-old Tumpa Moni may not know how lucky she was to get two drops of polio vaccine on her tongue on Sunday at a Bangladesh vaccination camp.

But her 15-year-old cousin, Babul, does know. The disease left him paralysed when he was three - when the medicine was unavailable to him - and has recently re-emerged, prompting a government drive to vaccinate up to 20-million children against the dreaded malady.

Texas health officials are urging parents to follow state and national immunization guidelines in the wake of the nation's largest mumps outbreak since 1988.

More than 300 cases of mumps have been reported in Iowa, spreading to Illinois, Nebraska, Minnesota, Kansas and Missouri. The epidemic appears to have started at a university in eastern Iowa in December.

A new study shows a direct relationship between mercury in children's vaccines and autism, contradicting government claims there is no proven relationship between the two.

Published in the March 10 issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, the data show since mercury was removed from childhood vaccines, the reported rates of autism and other neurological disorders in children not only stopped increasing but actually dropped sharply - by as much as 35 percent. Using the government's own databases, independent researchers analyzed reports of childhood neurological disorders, including autism, before and after removal of mercury-based preservatives.

WASHINGTON -- As doctors and health authorities fight state bans on mercury in vaccines and keep giving it to kids and pregnant women, one fact stands out: their certainty.

The image of pediatricians and public officials as valiant defenders of mercury takes a bit of getting used to, given their longstanding efforts to keep the toxic element out of our food, our bodies and the environment. No reasonable person -- let alone health professional -- would advocate keeping mercury in childhood vaccines unless they were absolutely certain it was an exception to this lethal legacy.

If the United States were to launch an annual influenza-vaccination program among the nation's school children, resources also should go to evaluate the program's success in reducing community-wide flu transmission.

Performing such an evaluation would be a crucial step in laying the groundwork to help the nation stage an organized response to a flu pandemic, assert M. Elizabeth Halloran, M.D., D.Sc., and Ira M. Longini Jr., Ph.D., both members of the Hutchinson Center's Public Health Sciences Division and professors of biostatistics at the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine.

A Columbia University scientist plans to test whether gold salts improve the functioning of "autistic mice" -- a step toward finding whether they could help children with autism.

Dr. Mady Hornig of Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health will give the compound to mice that have been bred to be susceptible to thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative in children's immunizations until recently. Some researchers and parents believe thimerosal is implicated in the explosion of autism diagnoses over the past decade, though federal health authorities say that theory has been discredited.

We sought to evaluate the impact of intense influenza media coverage during the 2003â€"2004 influenza season on the influenza vaccination status of children 6 to 59 months of age.

Of 256 enrolled children, 98 (38%) parents reported that their child had received the 2003-2004 influenza vaccine, and 64 (65%) had confirmed influenza vaccination dates. Unlike the previous influenza season in which confirmed influenza vaccination dates from a similar study population were distributed more evenly from October through December, most children (75%) with confirmed vaccination dates received the vaccine after the media coverage in mid-November.

Autism is the new multi-system disorder on the rise in children. Padmini B. Patell looks into the cause, detection and cure

Dr. Praveen. K. Saxenaa does not recollect coming across the word autism during his MBBS course. But when things did not seem quite normal with his first-born, he began to delve into possibilities. It was then that autism stared him in the face leaving him and his wife shattered.

A vaccine against the deadly toxin ricin is safe and effective, a US study has shown.

Ricin, extracted from castor oil beans, is one of the weapons which could be used in a bio-terror attack. US research, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggested the vaccine produced no significant side effects.

BOISE - At least one Treasure Valley health expert is warning against adults hosting parties that intentially infect children with chicken pox.

They're called pox parties and children with chicken pox are invited to hang out with kids who haven't caught the disease yet. Some parents think intentionally exposing kids to chicken pox at a young age does less harm than if they catch it naturally at an older age.